Yvo de Boer
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Yvo de Boer in 2007
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12 June 1954 Vienna, Austria |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation | Special Global Advisor Climate Change and Sustainability KPMG |
Yvo de Boer (born June 12, 1954) was the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, but he resigned two months after the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference to join KPMG as its Special Global Advisor, Climate Change and Sustainability and global ambassador. In 2011, Boer was appointed to chair the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Climate Change. Since April 2014, he is Director General of the Global Green Growth Institute.
De Boer was born in Vienna on June 12, 1954. He holds a technical degree in social work from the Netherlands. De Boer is married and has three children.
De Boer has been involved in climate change policies since 1994, most notably helping to prepare the position of the European Union in the lead-up to the negotiations on the , assisting in the design of the internal burden sharing of the European Union and has since led delegations to the UNFCCC negotiations. He has sought broad stakeholder involvement on the issue of climate change. To that end, he launched an international dialogue on the Clean Development Mechanism and has partnered international discussions with the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, aimed at increasing private sector involvement.
Prior to joining the UNFCCC, he was Director for International Affairs of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment of the Netherlands. De Boer's work in climate change policy began in 1994, and took part in the negotiations. De Boer has also worked for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) earlier in his career.
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